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Researching the Paranormal
Image: The Sun Very tired yesterday. My eyes felt swollen in their sockets and I was unable to concentrate much for the early part of the day. I thought a good coffee would sort me out, but that just gave … Continue reading
Posted in eBooks, Poetry, Travel, Writing
Tagged 3 Ebook deal, adventures, Clayton Morris, Coffee, crime fiction, eBooks, Family Guy, Fiction, free, free books, free ebooks, Headache, Jim Harold, novella, paranormal, podcasts, Reading, Research, The Paranormal Report, thrillers, tired
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June Workload: The Penultimate Plan
Image: Academics.de Late I slept in yesterday. Working my full week’s work in the first three days of the week, then being unable to catch up with lost sleep from the first few days, finally took its toll. I woke … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged black pudding, breakfast, cinema, Day Job, Family, filled roll, fried egg, gardening, GDR's, Goals Dreams and Resolutions, knackered, lawn, movie, mowing grass, sister, Sleep, slept in, tired, workplan, Writing
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Pit Stop
Image: TRF1 I started to feel quite run down towards the end of last week and after my last blog post on Saturday felt really quite rubbish. So I downed tools and took a pit stop, a little time out … Continue reading
Grimly Tired
Image: ic2 Hellish long day yesterday. As well as my usual shift—8am until 5pm—I was also scheduled for some overtime between 6pm and 11pm. That was all fine. I finished up reasonably early and still managed top find the time … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Fiction, I.T., Reading, Writing
Tagged Day Job, Editing, Fiction, novella, Stephen King, tired, working overtime, Writing
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Proofs And Presses
Image: Colin Galbraith I’m shattered. My eyes hurt, my head is sore, I have that run down snivelly thing going on and I want to sleep for hours while at the same time go out and let my hair down. … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, I.T., Interviews, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Sport
Tagged chapbook, Day Job, I.T, Philistine Press, Poetry, Poetry Super Highway, rugby, Rugby Union, run-down, salary, Scotland versus England, Silly Poems for Wee People Vol.2, Six Nations, stress, tired
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Mr Forgetful
Image: Digital Stores I was shattered going into work yesterday. And I was in a bad mood because of it. Missing my bus didn’t help either. Fucking Lothian left early. Three coffees in the office didn’t really help move things … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Family, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Writing
Tagged Biblio Paradise, cancer, cooking, Day Job, death, Family, Fiction, Lothian Buses, Marzetti, Patrick Swayze, short story, sleepy, spine-tinger, tired, Writing
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Poshing It Up At The Usher Hall
Image: Pure Music I struggled to get out of bed yesterday and was late for work by a few minutes as a result. I hate being late, but I think the lengthy shifts I’ve been putting in has started catching … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Music, Theatre, Writing
Tagged Day Job, debate, discussion, Edinburgh: the City & the Festivals, gig, live music, Lothian Road, Ray LaMontagne, Shakespeare Pub, tired, Usher Hall
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Slumped
Image: Kevin Dooley I found myself in a right slump yesterday. I think the combination of my recent sun stroke with subsequent loss of appetite, and the ill-timed deaths of a close friend and family member, could all be taking … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment
Tagged depressed, fed up, GDR's, gloomy, no appetitie, Slump, tired, waste of food, Writing
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Freedom from the Mundane 
Wee Brown Doggy
Image: 42 (www.blipfoto.com/42) Man am I tired! It’s not like I’ve been overdoing the hours at the day job again or not giving myself time to unwind before getting down to work on my manuscripts in the evening, but for … Continue reading →